![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](http://www.retronaut.co/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
This picture shows a zebra-driven hackney cab travelling from Brixton towards Stockwell. The driver is Gustav Grais who ran a circus of zebras and baboons.
Tame Zebras were not unusual at the beginning of the twentieth century:
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Thanks to Vonalina Cake and Urban 75.
Du coq à l’âne: contemporary yet imaginary Zebras show up near the People’s Palace in Bucharest – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y-3lAYi7Vg
I adore zebras! They are such under-appreciated live works of art! Every one of those photos is given a fresh dimension by the pattern of the zebra! Hurraaay to zebras everywhere!
wow…really chuffed you took this one up…I love these images…I’ve even had dreams with zebras in!
I wonder what other unusual forms of transportation there has been in history.
why dont they have tame Zebras now?
Zebras tend to be wild and unpredictable. Some people ride them but only skilled riders/trainers
Great shots! The middle photo is not labelled but it was Baron Walter Rothschild, who used to take his coach and four zebras up the Mall to Buckingham Palace. Sorry if you knew this already!